Dictionary Entry
haunt
haunt is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
- 2transitive verb
To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
- 3transitive verb
To practice; to devote one's self to.
- 4transitive verb
To accustom; to habituate.
- 5intransitive verb
To persist in staying or visiting.
- 6noun
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
- 7noun
The habit of resorting to a place.
- 8noun
Practice; skill.
- 9noun
a frequently visited place
- 10verb
haunt like a ghost; pursue
"Fear of illness haunts her"
- 11verb
be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
"She haunts the ballet"
Synonyms
- 12verb
follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
"her ex-boyfriend stalked her"
"the ghost of her mother haunted her"
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